U.S., Canada must do more in climate fight -France
The United States and Canada must do more than currently proposed to tackle greenhouse gases, France says in a position paper ahead of global climate talks in Copenhagen this December.
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Mexican tourism could lose $4 billion from flu scare
Mexico could lose up to $4 billion in tourism income after foreign visitors canceled trips to popular beach resorts and colonial towns due to the flu scare, Tourism Minister Rodolfo Elizondo said on Monday.
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Lula leads confident Brazil to new world role
When a former peanut vendor and radical union leader with little schooling became Brazil's president in 2003, many believed Latin America's underperforming giant had shot itself in the foot once again.
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Mexican H1N1 flu spreads easily: study
The new strain of H1N1 flu that has killed 56 people in Mexico and has been carried around the world by travelers acts more like a pandemic strain than regular seasonal flu, researchers reported on Monday.
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Mexican cartels break open new front in drugs war
Drug gangs have forced open a bloody new front in Mexico's drugs war, extending their battles over smuggling routes into a formerly quiet northwestern state and further stretching the army.
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Search for AF 447's black boxes continues
Despite the limited time left to locate the signals of the Air France's crashed jet data recorders, French Navy ships have not lost hope and continue the search with the hope of finding the reason why Flight 447 fell into the Atlantic on the evening of May 31.
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Air France crash sparks black box debate
While search teams scour the Atlantic ocean for the black boxes of Air France flight AF447 before their signals die out, aviation experts are considering satellite data streaming to collect vital flight data in future.
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Mexico finds cocaine haul hidden in frozen sharks
Mexico's navy has seized more than a ton of cocaine stuffed inside frozen sharks, as drug gangs under military pressure go to greater lengths to conceal narcotics bound for the United States.
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Brazil crews struggle to gather plane wreckage
Search crews in the Atlantic struggled on Friday to recover wreckage from an Air France flight as hopes dwindled of finding bodies from a crash possibly caused by pilots acting on flawed speed readings.
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Mexico gets back to normal, China eases quarantine
Mexicans were returning to normal life on Thursday after a five-day business shutdown due to the H1N1 flu virus and China eased quarantine measures, but the virus spread slowly in Europe.
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